Kasia Oleskiewicz
Kasia Oleśkiewicz [she/her] (*1998, Poland) currently lives and works in Bern, Switzerland.
Kasia is a visual artist, art theoretician and researcher. Her artistic practice is focused on topics of body, violence and animality. Her main media are sculpture, drawing and painting.
2023 – 2024 MA in Contemporary Arts Practice, University of the Arts in Bern, CH
2023 Course in Queer Art and Queer Curating, Node Center, Berlin, DE
2021/2022 MA in Fine Arts (Erasmus exchange), Academy of Fine Arts in Rome, IT
2019 – 2022 BA in History of Art, University of Warsaw, PL
2018 – 2023 MA in Sculpture, Academy of Fine Arts in Warsaw, PL
Instagram: @kasia_oleskiewicz @thefarmproject.art
Artist Statement
I am a visual artist. My main media are sculpture, drawing and painting. I often work with second hand materials, among other metal and textiles.
The topics I take up are connected to bodily sentience, pain, violation, the position of a body as “given over to another” (Judith Butler). I extend this parameter to all, any bodies – including other than human beings into this narration about a body, suffering, protection. Erasing borders between human and nonhuman allows me to search for my own animality and plurality. This way social issues and self-portraits merge, through a deep identification with the Other.
The show Broken Beasts at Schlachthof Kulturzentrum presents selected works from my series Untamed, which is an ode to a body, in its sentience and vulnerability. It’s a call for safety and respect for all the bodies, a try-out at reclaiming the body from interpretations, conventions, standards and control.